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Custom Grade a Pants Pattern

Resize your patterns to make perfect pants
Threads magazine - 139 – Oct./Nov. 2008

Grading is the process of changing a master pattern from one size to another. Today’s multisize patterns clearly show how grading changes a pattern. The cutting lines move out in somewhat equal increments from a smaller pattern size to a larger one, according to a set of standard grading rules.

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